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JOEL COOK 

(Late a Representative from Pennsylvania) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- 
TIVES AND THE SENATE OF THE 
UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS 
THIRD SESSION 



Proceedings in the House 
January 22, 1911 



Proceedings in the Senate 
December IS, 1910 



COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 

Proceedings in the House 5 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 5, 7 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. McCreary, of Pennsylvania. 9 

Mr. Bates, of Pennsylvania I3 

Mr. Goulden, of New York jg 

Mr. Bennet, of New York jg 

Mr. Kendall, of Iowa 22 

Mr. Moore, of Pennsylvania 24 

Mr. Wanger, of Pennsylvania 27 

Mr. Moon, of Pennsylvania 29 

Proceedings in the Senate 35 

Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D... 35 

Resolutions adopted 3g 



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DEATH OF HON. JOEL COOK 



Proceedings in the House 

December 15, 1910. 
The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for 
this beautiful day, token of Thy presence and continued 
care; for all the longings, hopes, and aspirations which fill 
our minds and hearts. Help us, we beseech Thee, with 
renewed faith and confidence to work ever toward the 
higher ideals, until at last we shall awake in the full con- 
sciousness of our likeness to Thee and hear in the fullness 
of joy the words, " Well done, good and faithful servant." 
And now, O Father, we are called upon to mourn the loss 
of another one of the congressional family, a man ever 
active and useful, conspicuous on the floor of this House 
for his work in State and Nation. Grant, O most merciful 
Father, to comfort his stricken wife and children, his 
friends and colleagues, with the blessed hope of the 
immortalitj' of the soul. And we will ascribe all praise 
to Thee, for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and 
the glory, forever. Amen. 

Mr. Bingham. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
tions, which I send to the Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 

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The Clei"k read as follows: 

Hesolved, That the House of Representatives has heard with 
profound sorrow of the death of the Hon. Joel Cook, late a Rep- 
resentative from the State of Pennsylvania. 

Resolved, That a committee of 12 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be author- 
ized and directed to talie such steps as may be necessary for 
carrying out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the 
necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the 
contingent fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and send a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

The question was taken, and the resolutions were unani- 
mously agreed to. 

The Speaker. The Speaker will make the appointment 
of the committee after the adjournment, as the Chair has 
not the list, and report the Members of that committee to 
the House to-morrow. [After a pause.] The Chair hears 
no objection. 

Mr. Bingham. Mr. Speaker, I now ofTer the following 
resolution. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Pennsylvania offers 
a resolution, which the Clerk will report. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the Representative whose death has been announced, the House 
do now adjourn. 

The resolution was agreed to; and accordingly (at 12 
o'clock and 12 minutes) the House adjourned to meet 
to-morrow, Friday, December 16, 1910, at 12 o'clock noon. 



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Proceedings in the House 



January 5, 1911. 

Mr. Moore of Pennsj'lvania. Mr. Speaker, I offer the 
following order, and ask unanimous consent for its adop- 
tion. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Pennsylvania offers 
the following order, which the Clerk will report. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Ordered, That Sunday, the 22d day of January, 1911, at 12 
o'clock noon, be set apart for addresses on the life, character, 
and public services of the Hon. Joel Cook, late a Representative 
from the State of Pennsylvania. 

The Speaker. Is there objection? 
There was no objection. 
The order was agreed to. 

Sunday, January 22, 1911. 

The House met at 12 o'clock m., and was called to order 
by Mr. Bingham, as Speaker pro tempore. 

The following prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Rev. 
Henry N. Couden, D. D.: 

Our Father in heaven, moved by a natural desire, a 
common impulse, we are gathered here to-day to pay a 
last tribute of love and respect to two Members of this 
House who proved themselves worthy of the confidence 
reposed in them by their fellow countrj'men. Both typi- 
cal American citizens, who, by dint of their own efforts, 
carved out for themselves careers which made them con- 
spicuous for honest endeavor, clean living, and integrity 
of purpose. Recognized as such, they were chosen lead- 
ers for the promotion of good citizenship, commercial 
interests, and the public welfare. 



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We thank Thee foi" their lives, for what they did, and 
we pray that their memories may live to inspire those who 
come after them to lives of purity and usefulness. 

We know not what the future hath 

Of marvel or surprise; 
Assured alone that life and death 

His mercy underlies. 

Comfort their dear ones by an ever-abiding faith in the 
eternal goodness of God our Father; and help us to real- 
ize that the greatest tribute they or we can pay to their 
memorj' is to copy their virtues and leave behind us, if 
possible, the world a little better than we found it. In the 
spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Mr. Moore, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I offer the 
following resolutions. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
Hon. Joel Cook, late a Member of this House from the State of 
Pennsylvania. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career, the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall 
stand adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
family of the deceased. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The question is on the adop- 
tion of the resolutions. 

The question was taken, and the resolutions were 
unanimously agreed to. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. McCreary, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker: The subject of mj^ memorial address, the 
late Hon. Joel Cook, representing the second congres- 
sional district of Pennsylvania, was well known and 
highly respected for his character and ability in the 
business, educational, and literary circles of Philadelphia. 
His congressional career was comparatively short, but 
he paid close attention to the workings of the House in 
order that he might become familiar with its procedure 
and be of service when required to participate. In order 
that we may more appreciate his character and ability, 
it will be appropriate to give a brief sketch of the activi- 
ties of life in which he was engaged during his earlier 
and later j^ears. And I am largely indebted to the home 
papers for many of the following facts regarding him. 

Mr. Cook was born in Philadelphia March 21, 1842, 
directly opposite Independence Hall. On his father's 
side he was descended from Capt. Thomas Cook, who 
founded the town of Portsmouth, R. I., and on his 
mother's side from Dr. Thomas Wynn, who was surgeon 
on the Welcome, which brought William Penn to Phila- 
delphia in 1682. Dr. Wynn was also speaker of the 
second assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania and 
one of the judges of the supreme court of the Province. 
He was thus equipped at birth with a distinguished 
ancestry and splendid heredity. 



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Mr. Cook was educated in the Philadelphia public 
schools, attended the Zane Street Grammar School from 
1850 to 1855, and during the latter year entered the 
Central High School, but only after the educational 
board adopted a special resolution granting him this 
privilege, as he was not of the required age for admis- 
sion. In 1859 he graduated with honors. While a 
student at the high school he spent his vacation period 
and leisure moments studying printing in one of the 
large printing houses of the city. 

After his graduation, however, he studied law with 
William B. Reed and at the University of Pennsylvania 
Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1862, but 
after practicing for a short while gave up the legal pro- 
fession, and as the bent of his mind was toward a jour- 
nalistic career, went to the front as a war correspondent 
during the McClellan campaign of 1862 for the Phila- 
delphia Press and later became associated with the Pub- 
lic Ledger as editorial writer and financial editor. He 
was then also chief American correspondent for the 
London Times, which was no doubt considered the most 
powerful newspaper in the world. 

Mr. Moberly Bell, managing editor of the London 
Times, spoke of Mr. Cook as the ablest of the foreign 
correspondents on the American staff. It has been said 
of him in connection with the Times letters, that he did 
more than all other writers combined to advance Ameri- 
can credit abroad. Moberly Bell again said that he never 
once misled the Times in his interpretation of election 
returns or in forecasting important developments of in- 
ternational importance. After he relinquished his post 
as Times correspondent by reason of pressure of busi- 
ness the Times changed its headquarters to New York. 

Mr. Cook was a former and prominent member of the 
Philadelphia Board of Education, and always retained 

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Address of Mr. McCreary, of Pennsylvania 

a keen interest in the city's educational work, serving 
on a number of committees and as chairman of the com- 
mittee on the Central High School. At the time of his 
death he was president of the board of trade and of the 
Vessel Owners and Captains' Association, also a mem- 
ber of the Union League of Philadelphia, having served 
as a director of that important association. He wrote 
a number of articles on the commerce of Philadelphia, 
which received much attention by reason of his prac- 
tical knowledge on the subject. He went frequently be- 
fore congressional and legislative committees to advo- 
cate legislation which would prove advantageous to the 
commerce of the city and State. He found time to travel 
at home and abroad, and has written a number of inter- 
esting books on New England and Old England, which 
show not only a marked literary style, but are valuable 
as books of information for the traveler or reader. 

Mr. Cook was married September 19, 1865, to Mary J. 
Edmunds, who, with two married children, survive him. 
His home life was ideal and he was a devoted husband 
and loving father. 

He was elected to Congress November 5, 1907, to fill the 
unexpired term of Hon. John E. Reyburn; was reelected 
in 1908 and in 1910. 

Mr. Speaker, an editorial on his death in the Philadel- 
phia Inquirer, as follows, shows the esteem in which he 
was held: 

DEATH OF JOEL COOK. 

With the death of Joel Cook comes the second vacancy in a 
montli in the ranks of Congressmen from this city. Mr. Cook 
had been so short a time at Washington that he had achieved no 
national reputation, although his services were highly valued 
and he seemed certain in time to develop into one of the 
substantial men of the House. But locally he had achieved an 
enviable reputation. Few men were so well known, not for any 



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display of rare genius or brilliant talent as for those more desir- 
able and more useful qualities of intelligence and energy devoted 
to high purposes. 

Nothing that touched Philadelphia was out of the range of Mr. 
Cook's activities. As a publicist, a business man, a semipublic 
ofHcial, as well as in the ordinary duties of private citizenship, 
he was an admirable example of the best Philadelphia type. He 
began in humble circumstances and forged ahead by his own 
abilities, but life was not wholly serious for him. In his leisure 
hours he turned to literature and wrote many volumes of travel, 
which betrayed a flne capacity for observation and an unusual 
capability for clear statement. His latest work is just from the 
press and has a melancholy interest. 

The loss is one greatly to be regretted, the more so because he 
normally should have had some years left of public service be- 
fore retiring to a well-earned leisure. Cut down suddenly, in 
Washington, he died in the city he loved so well and for which 
he labored so arduously and effectively during two generations. 



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Address of Mr. Bates, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker: The Hon. Joel Cook died in the midst 
of his labors and honors and at a time of liis greatest 
influence and usefulness in the world. 

Sorrowful tasks are from time to time imposed upon 
every one. There is none, however, more mournful than 
that of perusing the records of the lives of those whom 
we have known, or the duty which compels us to utter 
in public our words of praise and affection for the 
friends, the companions, the long-trusted ones, who have 
gone. These are the sad milestones which are placed 
along the passage of time with a fearful certainty and 
an unsparing equality of distribution. These trials, 
however, must be faced as we look into the eyes of fate 
or listen to its knocking at the door. It is for us to meet 
them seriously, yet in the right spirit, \\athout empty 
and helpless lamentation. 

I counted him whom we mourn to-day as my friend. 
He was a man of fine literary instincts and tastes, a veri- 
table scholar in politics. No one could help but be im- 
pressed with his placid dignity, his serenity, his patience, 
and his quiet courage. He spent no happier hours than 
when surrounded by his books. He could truly say with 
Prospero, " My libraiy is dukedom large enough for me." 

He was of a gracious presence, of a refined and gentle 
nature, and a man of much higher ability than was 
accredited him. He was never given to self-exploitation, 
but those who knew him best had no difficult^' in discern- 
ing the excellent capacity which had given him through- 
out his busy life such a large measure of success and such 
a host of friends who mourn him to-day. 



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Memorial Addhesses: Rei'Resentative Cook 

It setMiis to be the fashion now to decry legislators 
and all men who appear in a representative capacity. 
Councils of cities, legislatures of States, Senates and 
Congresses at the National Capital, none are immune 
as bodies, at least, from the public switchings which are 
daily administered in many of our magazines and news- 
papers. We shall wait a long time, however, before 
we shall find any form of election which will represent 
as truly the will of the people as did the district in 
Pennsylvania which sent Joel Cook as its Representative 
in Congress. In his ability, patriotism, and high, un- 
questioned, unblemished character he was an ideal rep- 
resentative of the best aims and wishes of the people, 
and without ostentation or sound of trumpet recorded 
his vote from day to day as he believed for their highest 
good. 

We Americans take great pride in our countn,% and 
nowhere is patriotism more intense. We never hesitate 
to give expression to our love of country under all con- 
ditions, and yet sometimes we seem to be singularly 
distrustful of ourselves and almost void of self-confidence 
in judging of our own work. 

This man performed most patriotic services in literary 
fields. In the highest sense he was a public servant. 
In Congress he expressed the will of the people. To a 
man like this our country, and especially his own city 
and Commonwealth, owes a large debt not merely for 
his lifelong labors but for the example he set and the 
dignity that he gave at all times to the public service. 

But all earthly work must end. Humanity is a proces- 
sion. Our words of fai'ewell to a fellow workman should 
not alone be those of grief that man's common lot has 
come to him, but of pride and joy for all the good he has 
accomplished. Men so weave themselves into their hour 
that, for the moment, it seems as though much will be 



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Address of Mr. Bates, of Pennsylvania 

interrupted when thej' depart. " One generation passeth 
away, and another generation cometh; but the earth 
abideth forever." The progress of the race goes on, and 
we realize in every step more and more its upward pur- 
pose. If we and all things are not working together for 
good, if our life is but a breath exhaled and then forever 
lost, our work means little. 

Cicero tells us, in his Remarks on Old Age, quoting 
from Xenophon, that the elder Cyrus on his deathbed 
spake as follows : 

Do not suppose, my dearest sons, that when I have left you I 
shall be nowhere and no one. Even when I was with you, you 
did not see my soul, but knew that it was in this body of mine 
from what I did. Believe, then, that it is still the same, even 
though you see it not. The honors paid to illustrious men had 
not continued to exist after their death had the soul of these 
very men not done something to make us retain our recollection 
of them beyond the ordinary time. For myself, I never could 
be persuaded that souls while in mortal bodies were alive, and 
died directly they let them; nor, in fact, that the soul only lost 
all intelligence when it left the unintelligent body. I believe, 
rather, that when, by being liberated from all corporeal admix- 
ture, it has begun to be pure and undefiled, it is then that it 
becomes wise. 

And again, when man's natural frame is resolved into its 
elements by death, it is clearly seen whither each of the other 
elements departs, for they all go to the place from which they 
came; but the soul alone is invisible alike when present and 
when departing. Once more, you see that nothing is so like 
death as sleep. And yet it is in sleepers that souls most clearly 
reveal their divine nature, for they foresee many events when 
they are allowed to escape and are left free. This shows what 
they are likely to be when they have completely freed themselves 
from the fetters of the body. Wherefore, if these things are so, 
obey me as a god. But if my soul is to perish with my body, 
nevertheless do you, from awe of the gods who guard and govern 
this fair universe, preserve my memory by the loyalty and piety 
of your lives. 



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Address of Mr. Goulden, of New York 

Mr. Speaker: In the garden of this House we grow 
flowers of many varieties, of all colors, sizes, and shapes; 
many are annuals, and bloom once, to be seen no more; 
others are perennials, and blossom forth each year to the 
great delight of the House and the Nation, and seem to be 
always with us. 

But in spite of our care and watchfulness the fell de- 
stroyer Death insists upon picking our flowers, and does 
not hesitate, when the fancy suits, to pluck even the 
rarest. He has again been at his ghastly work, and we 
are met to-day to lament the plucking from our garden 
of two of its hardiest specimens as well as most choice. 

The death of Joel Cook, in December, 1910, came as 
the culmination of a splendid life spent in the public in- 
terest and in the peculiarly American profession which 
crystallizes public opinion. Although educated as a law- 
yer, he soon abandoned the practice for the more con- 
genial field of journalism, and gave 45 years of his life to 
it. It was as a newspaper correspondent that he suf- 
fered and even fought with the Army of the Potomac and 
learned how to make history in Washington in the stir- 
ring days of the Civil War. 

Thereafter the Philadelphia Public Ledger claimed his 
services, and for the balance of his active journalistic life 
that great newspaper profited by his connection with it. 
As its financial editor for 24 years he became an author- 
ity on trade and commerce and finance, and this was at- 
tested by his presidency of the Philadelphia Board of 
Trade and his membership in many learned societies. 
State and national. That his interests were not all of one 



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Address of Mr. Goulden, of New York 

kind is shown by his official connection with the Security 
Life Insurance & Trust Co., but proving that every project 
must have the public good for its object before it could 
enlist his support. 

He found time for intellectual pursuits, and was a noted 
traveler and author. His connection with this House 
commenced in the Sixtieth Congress, continued in the 
Sixty-first, and he had been reelected to the Sixty-second, 
although death prevented him from completing his term 
in the Sixty-first. 

His services in the House came as a fitting climax to the 
long and useful life he had led, and he was certainly a 
distinguished member of the Pennsylvania delegation. 
His great knowledge of trade and commerce and finance 
and his wide experience of men and events gave him an 
equipment that was exceptionable for the handling of the 
matters of political economy that are now troubling us 
for solution; he was one of the men that could ill be 
spared, and his death unquestionably deprives the House 
and the country of the priceless services of a good, useful 
man. 

Yet he lived a long and useful life, and I am sure he 
passed to his Creator without a single regret; surely he 
had obeyed in letter and spirit the invocation — 

So live, that when thy summons comes to join 
The innumerable caravan which moves 
To that mysterious realm where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death. 
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave 
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 

His passing was a deep personal loss to me, and my 
heart was saddened as I saw him laid away in beautiful 

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Laurel Hill Cemetery, with the ever-placid Schuylkill 
flowing near by. I thought of many things, of the passing 
friendships that come with the years, of my own few 
remaining daj^s in this House, and of the living friend- 
ships that may soon sever; then life itself, which had de- 
serted my own good friend thus laid away, with so many 
present to bid him farewell, occupied my thoughts, and 
looking to inyself I whispered in the words of Mrs. Bar- 
bauld: 

Life! we've been long together 

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 

'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, 

Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; 

Then steal away, give little warning, 

Choose thine own time; 

Say not " Good night," but in some brighter clime 

Bid me " Good morning." 

And with the same heartfelt wish for my friend and 
former colleague I bade him adieu here on earth. 

He certainl}' left the world better than he found it, and 
the memory of his splendid deeds will prove an incentive 
to the young men of the Nation. 



Address of Mr. Bennet, of New York 

Mr. Speaker : We who have been here even for a brief 
period come to realize that the 90,000,000 people of this 
countrv' send to these nearly 400 places at successive 
elections manj' men of manj' minds. There are those 
in the flush of youth, coming here filled with the zeal of 
advocacy; there are those to whom the service here is 
but one of manj^ honors which life has brought; there 
are those to whom service here is the first of many 
honors; there are those to whom service here is the last 
of many honors. 

There are both advocates and jurj'men; those who push 
forward enterprises of great pith and moment, and those 
who sit and weigh the work of others. 

Mr. Cook, who came here in the Sixtieth Congress, 
came after a career distinguished by many marks of 
the approval and favor of those who had known him. 
Not a young man, for he was 65; not an inexperienced 
man, for as against our war of words here he had a recol- 
lection of the war of arms. Not new to human nature, 
for in his profession of journalism he had seen human 
nature stripped of its trappings and naked in the analysis 
of those who dealt in ambitions and motives. 

There have been few more useful men in the capacity 
in which he served than Mr. Cook. During the sessions 
of the Sixtieth Congress it was my pleasure to occupy 
a seat next to that in which he habitually sat. He was 
a man of habit. Elected to this House, he assumed that 
it was his duty to be here at 12 o'clock on each day on 
which the House met at that hour, and remain during 

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the session. He gave attention to every man who spoke, 
whether on his own side of the Chamber or the other. 
He weighed what was said in the proceedings of this 
House, and he brought to each vote that he cast that 
calm, level judgment which we who knew him came to 
appreciate. I desire to express my sense of personal 
obligation. 

We were of different generations, to some extent of 
different temperaments, and a considerable disparity of 
years. On my part, with a somewhat more youthful 
trend of thought, I owed many a turn to the more mature, 
more calm, and more perfect judgment of his riper ex- 
perience. Those of us who knew him are glad that his 
life of achievement had the crowning honor of service 
here. He deemed it an honor, for he was an old- 
fashioned American; he deemed it an honor, for he was 
a patriotic American; he deemed it an honor, for he was 
one of those who regarded the Congress of the United 
States as the greatest parliamentary body in the world. 

Though a man of independent thought, he had lived 
and moved through a procession of events which led 
him to value organized effort. He believed in counsel 
before agreement, but after agreement among the mem- 
bers of the party to which he adhered he stanchly sup- 
ported the verdict of the majority of his own people, 
whether it accorded at all times with his own judgment 
or not. 

Mr. Cook's was a typically useful life. He himself was 
a type of the men who frequently ought to be sent here, 
more frequently, perhaps, than happens; a rounded, 
complete, experienced, able man, one in whose service 
his district would always have quiet content and full 
satisfaction. It is no surprise to me that the great in- 
dustrial city which he represented in part chose him 
and continued him here. That city has honored itself 



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Address of Mr. Bennet, of New York 

in the past by sending its Representatives for long and 
consecutive service. It has placed itself at the head of 
power in this House on many occasions by first selecting 
men similar to Mr. Cook and then retaining them here. 
It was a pleasure to have known him; it was a benefit 
to have known him; and for one his death, while it 
could not be described as untimely, comes to me as a 
source of personal sorrow. 



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Address of Mr. Kendall, of Iowa 

Mr. Speaker: I am familiar with no ceremonial more 
beautiful or appropriate than the one which we are now 
engaged in observing. We renounce for the moment the 
busy activities of official life, while at this sacred hour 
we pause to contemplate the character of our departed 
friend, and to record our estimate of the enduring virtues 
which he exemplified. I was introduced to Mr. Cook 
upon my entrance into the House, at the convening of 
the Sixty-first Congress, and, since we were near neigh- 
bors in committee and on the floor, an acquaintance 
which might otherwise have remained casual ripened 
into what I am fond of believing was a friendship mutu- 
ally agreeable and sincere. I appreciated at once the 
exceptional qualities of his intellect, to which reference 
has been so fittingly made on this occasion; and as daily 
association afforded opportunity for accurate judgment 
I became more and more impressed with the consummate 
abilities he possessed. He never aspired to prominence 
in the ordinary business of the House. With abundant 
capacity for tlic most important public service, his 
modest}' constrained him to allow to others all that 
conspicuous display which attracts the admiration of 
the world outside. His equipment for the duties which 
devolved upon him was ample, but he had none of the 
assurance which often enables mediocrity to overshadow 
excellence in the public esteem. He was sane of mind, 
sound of heart, sweet of spirit, pure of soul. 

If he had been commissioned to this House in 1887 
rather than in 1907, his influence upon the legislation 



Address of Mr. Ivend.\i.l, of Iowa 



of his time would have been permanent and valuable. 
It is the misfortune of the country that he was admitted 
to labor here after he had passed the meridian of his 
powers. He had traveled extensively in many lands, 
and all his journeyings onlj' intensified his attachment 
for his own. What he saw and heard and felt and 
reflected in his wanderings at home and abroad is pre- 
served in his contributions to the historical literature 
of his era. He loved his Nation, his State, and his city, 
and his paramount ambition was to serve them help- 
fully, unostentatiously, acceptably. And so this strong, 
quiet, unassuming, genuine, worthy man came finally to 
twilight and evening star, with honor, love, obedience, 
troops of friends to accompanj' his old age. He had 
finished the course, he had kept the faith. And when 
the inevitable messenger with the inverted torch beck- 
oned him to depart, he passed on to be crowned with the 
triumphant benediction, "Well done, good and faithful 
servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord! " 



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Address of Mr. Moore, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker: My acquaintance with the Hon. Joel 
Cook, whose treasured inemory is now the subject of our 
deliberations, dates back more than 30 years. I knew 
him first as financial editor of the Public Ledger. He 
was then also the American correspondent of the London 
Times. 

Like our lamented colleague, the Hon. William W. 
Foulkrod, Mr. Cook was a native of Philadelphia. He 
had come up through the public schools, and graduated 
from the Central High School in 1859. He had become 
a member of the bar, but preferred journalism as a pro- 
fession, and was for some time a correspondent with the 
Army of the Potomac. It was as a newspaper man I 
first learned to esteem him. In 1881 I became his junior 
on the staff of the Ledger, under the kindly influence 
of his friend and mine, the late George W. Childs, and 
for 12 years thereafter knew and respected him as a 
considerate mentor and associate. 

Mr. Cook possessed a point of vantage in the financial 
world as the confidant of Mr. .Anthony J. Drexel, the 
lifelong friend of Mr. Childs. In railroad and financial 
circles he was especially well known, and his daily let- 
ters in the Public Ledger were accepted as gospel by 
the business and transportation interests. 

His leisure, apart from the attention he gave to sliips 
and shipping, in which, in the days of sailing vessels, he 
was largclj' interested, was devoted to travel and to 
literature. He was the author of numerous works of 

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travel. His American and European tours as published 
in book form were generally accepted by the press as 
standards, and were widely read. His style was grace- 
ful and accurate, and always instructive. In tlie intro- 
ductory' to An Eastern Tour at Home, the distinguished 
and learned editor in chief of the Public Ledger, Mr. 
William V. McKean, said of him: 

Mr. Cook has certainly made his narrative extremely interest- 
ing, so much so as to cause a demand that his serial articles 
should be reproduced in collected form in a book. He has a 
faculty of seeing in familiar scenes and places notable features 
and aspects usually overlooked by other writers, and of giving 
to his narrative and descriptions the sparkle of sprightliness, 
freshness, and life, in company with marked graphic power. 
These characteristics give such a charm to his descriptive writ- 
ings that many people are at a loss to couple them with his 
matter-of-fact and prosaic vocation of financial editor of the 
Public Ledger. 

While he never made a formal address in this House, 
Mr. Cook was an exceedingly fluent and capable speaker. 
On financial and trade questions he had few equals. 
He was expert in matters affecting navigation and made 
a thorough study of the Delaware River. His appear- 
ance as president of the Philadelphia Board of Trade 
before the Rivers and Harbors Committee several years 
ago demonstrated his masterj' of the problem of the 
Delaware, which for years had been the subject of 
contention. 

In educational fields Mr. Cook was also a useful citizen. 
He had been a member of the board of public education, 
and up to his election to Congress had given close atten- 
tion to the development of the public-school system, to 
which he himself proudly acknowledged allegiance. 

His home life was one of the happiest. During the last 
few years of his service in Washington Mr. Cook labored 

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under very great physical diniculties. The faithful wife 
who had borne with him all the joys and triumphs of 
more than 40 years of married life accompanied him on 
his last journey to the Capital, and with true womanly 
fortitude sustained and encouraged him on the sad jour- 
ney back to the home ha Philadelphia. 

Since our duty to-day is not only to pay tribute to the 
dead, but to cheer the living, may we not say to the loved 
ones left behind : 

Early parting is the bitterest experience of human life. 

Death is the dawn of morning. 
The dawn will be eternal life. 

Eternity will see the glad reunion. 



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Address of Mr. Wanger, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker: Assembled to pay tribute to William 
Walker Foulkrod and Joel Cook, two Members of this 
body, each of whom typified in ample degree the highest 
type of character, we keenly realize the great loss sus- 
tained by the Nation through their death, no less than 
by the districts which honored themselves in honoring 
them with membership here. 

In the exemplification of integrity, and in earnest devo- 
tion to what each believed to be for the welfare of his 
constituency and his country, and in fondness for rural 
life, notwithstanding long experience, the first as mer- 
chant and the second as journalist and scholar in one 
of the great cities of the country, and in devotion to 
friends and family, they were strikingly similar. Each 
spent his vacation period in a country home within the 
district which has honored me with representation here, 
and delighted in the cultivation of the soil and the com- 
panionship of family and friends amid the beauties of 
nature. 

But their life work in youth and the prime of man- 
hood was in different fields of usefulness. Foulkrod was 
a merchant, and the business concerns that he ably 
served, first as employee and later as principal, were 
always recognized by the highest qualities of fair deal- 
ing, and the names of these business houses were and 
remain the synonym of honorable merchandising. It is 
needless to state that his character as a manufacturer 
was of the same fine quality. 

Cook was educated for the bai", but adopted journalism, 
and in that profession gave to his countrymen the benefit 



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of profound learning and the fair expression of his honest 
convictions. He believed that men and events should 
be treated with justice and truth, and his course may 
well be studied by the profession as typical of what must 
eventually be its dominating impulses if the profession 
is to retain the confidence of the public and exercise 
the influence making the power of the press a leading 
factor of usefulness. 

With their experience and lofty purposes they were 
of the highest usefulness to their constituents and the 
country in legislation making for the common welfare. 
Neither was inclined to waste the public time with decla- 
mation; both were untiring in the work essential to the 
perfection of legislation. It may reasonably be that the 
great labor which each gave to the illumination of the 
subject dealt with in the first session of this Congress 
was the strain upon vital forces which ultimately caused 
their death. 

Each was richly blessed in the family relation, and 
left a fond wife and devoted children to mourn with a 
wide circle of friends his call from time to eternity. 

It was a great privilege to know and to be associated 
with them, and their advice and example were invalu- 
able. Their sterling qualities will long make them re- 
membered and revered, and among Americans who well 
served their day and generation they will justly occupy 
a prominent rank. 



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Address of Mr. Moon, of Pennsylvania 

Mr. Speaker: The House of Representatives has as- 
sembled to-day in conformity with the time-honored 
custom to pay its last tribute of respect to two men who 
were enrolled upon its record as Members of this dis- 
tinguished body. In its ordinary' sessions this House is 
the arena of a contest. Here conflicting theories of gov- 
ernmental policies are shaped into national legislation 
by earnest, impetuous, and sometimes acrimonious de- 
bate, but to-day the atmosphere of this Hall of the Nation 
is charged witli the spirit of reverence, of sympathy, and 
of sorrow. Two of our comrades, men of mature years, 
of long and successful experience in public affairs, men 
with whom we have been constantly associated and upon 
whose judgment we have relied in shaping the policies 
of the National Government, have passed away. Their 
seats are vacant, their kindly and inspiring association 
is no longer felt, and their ripe knowledge, long training 
in public life, and their trusted judgment in public af- 
fairs can no longer aid us in the duties which we are 
called upon daily to perform. 

The city of Philadelphia comprises six of the congres- 
sional districts of the State of Pennsylvania, and her 
loss by the death of her Representatives has been con- 
spicuously great within the past few years. I am now 
serving my fourth term in this body. I was elected to 
fill a vacancy' caused by the death of a Philadelphia 
Member, and during that brief period we have been 
called to mourn the loss of six Members from that city — 
Mr. Foerderer, Mr. Rurke, Mr. Adams, Mr. Castor, Mr. 



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Foulkrod, and Mr. Cook. A mortality such as this has 
not occurred in any otlier section of the country' within 
so brief a period of time. 

Joel Cook was elected to the Sixtieth Congress to fill 
a vacancy caused by the resignation of the Hon. John E. 
Reyburn, who retired to become mayor of the city of 
Philadelphia. He was reelected to the Sixty-first Con- 
gress, and was again reelected to the Sixty-second Con- 
gress. He had therefore served nearly two full terms 
in the House, and was commissioned by the second dis- 
trict of Pennsylvania as their Representative for a third 
term. 

Mr. Cook was born in the city of Philadelphia in 1812, 
and his entire life was passed there. In his early man- 
hood he gained a position of influence and importance 
in the life of that city, and continued down to the time of 
his death as one of her foremost citizens. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar of Philadelphia at the early age of 21 
years, but never entered upon the practice of his profes- 
sion. He came to maturity in the stirring and exciting 
daj'^s of the Civil War, when this great Nation was in- 
volved in the struggle for national existence, and the ac- 
tivities of those strenuous times lured this young barrister 
from the quiet practice of his profession and led him to 
the scene of conflict. Mr. Cook early developed the at- 
tributes of quick judgment, intuitive appreciation of the 
new and complex situation that confronted the country, 
and a clear and convincing method of expression. These 
striking qualities attracted the attention of the nesvs- 
papers of the country, and he was enrolled upon their 
staff of reporters and sent to the front as a war corre- 
spondent. Mr. Cook's service in this field was conspicu- 
ous. His concise and accurate summary of the stirring 
events of that time attracted the attention of the countrj', 
and his services were sought by the London Times as 



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their American correspondent, and for a number of yeai's 
he was on the staff of that great newspaper. 

This early training of Mr. Cook was exceptional and 
to a man of his instinctive perceptions of great value. 
He here became acquainted with public men and public 
measures. He was brought into close contact with the 
great leaders in national legislation and in the historic 
military affairs of that great epoch. 

Governmental theories were being tried by stern con- 
test on the field of battle as well as in the halls of legisla- 
tion. The newspapers of the country were heralds of 
great events, and a newspaper correspondent of marked 
ability, such as possessed by Joel Cook, was permitted 
to see from the inside a mighty struggle for mastery 
between conflicting political theories which marked the 
administration of Abraham Lincoln. 

This training laid for him the foundation for that broad 
and intimate knowledge of governmental affairs which 
we who knew him intimately so often relied upon when 
important matters were agitated by the press of the 
country. 

Early in his public career he became identified with the 
Public Ledger, of Philadelphia, then and now one of the 
great newspapers of this country. He eventually be- 
came financial editor of that publication and was identi- 
fied with it up to the time of his election to Congress. 
Mr. Cook was also an extensive traveler in foreign coun- 
tries. His trained powers of accurate observation and his 
great historical knowledge made him a keen and intelli- 
gent critic of the European countries and resulted in the 
publication by him of several valuable books on foreign 
travel which added materially to his already established 
literary fame. 

Mr. Cook's activities were not confined to his editorial 
and literary work, but he early espoused the cause of the 



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financial and public institutions of the city of Phila- 
delphia, was president of the Board of Trade, and 
actively identified with all the great movements for the 
progress and development of the natural resources of 
the city. 

This long apprenticeship in public affairs, this awak- 
ened and developed interest and close study of the ques- 
tions affecting the city of Philadelphia and of the Nation 
at large, and his sterling honesty and fearless courage, 
made Joel Cook at the time of his election to Congress 
a man of commanding importance in the city of Phila- 
delphia, and his friends and the public at large con- 
fidently intrusted to him their important interests, elected 
him to Congi'ess with practical unanimity, and predicted 
for him a field of great usefulness and importance upon 
the floor of the House. 

One dominant trait of Mr. Cook's character, and one 
that had added materially to his usefulness and to the 
growth of his reputation, was his conservatism. He was 
never a voluble man; he never put himself to the front 
until he was entirely sure of his position; he had no 
ambition for notoriety. He had carved his path to emi- 
nence by the slow and certain road of real achievement. 

The congressional life was new to him; it was a new 
chapter in his life's histoiy. No man upon the floor of the 
House was more broadly acquainted with public affairs 
or knew more intimately and accurately the public ques- 
tions which agitated the counti-y; but the field of public 
congressional debate was outside of the scope of Mr. 
Cook's past experiences. The rules of procedure were 
strange to him. He had not yet made himself master 
of the methods of parliamentary discussions and he was 
calmly and confidently waiting his time. No Member of 
this House was more constant in his attendance, none 
more conscientious in the faithful performance of every 



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public duty, none more efficient in the discharge of his 
dut>' to his constituents, and none more resourceful and 
instructive in the council of committees. But he despised 
ostentation, he would not talk for the sake of talking, 
he never arose to his feet in any public assembly to speak 
unless he was confident that he had something of value 
to say, and had his life been spared to his constituents 
and to his country, I confidently assert the prediction that 
the time would soon have come when his ripe thought, 
his broad and diversified knowledge, and his forceful 
speech would liave challenged the attention of this House, 
and it would have gladlj' listened to his temperate elo- 
quence and would have come to regard him as one of the 
wise counselors of the Nation. 

The community that knew him best, liis own home 
city of Philadelphia, most keenlj^ appreciates his loss. 
For nearly a half centuiy he was a familiar figure in 
her social and financial life; he numbered among his 
tried and trusted friends all of the great men of that 
great city whose achievements are a part of her proudest 
records. Genial, sociable, kindly, affectionate, the friends 
that he gathered to himself in his youth remained his close 
friends and devoted admirers to the end. No public 
gathering in that city at which he was not a conspicuous 
and honored figure; no movement for the improvement 
of that city, for the development of lier trade and com- 
merce, for the shaping and developing of her civic insti- 
tutions, but was strengthened by his presence and his 
advice, and he was reverently followed to his last resting 
place by our great leaders in civic, industrial, and po- 
litical life, and is unanimously accorded bj' them the title 
of a great Philadelphian. 



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Proceedings in the Senate 

December 15, 1910. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
the following prayer : 

Our heavenly Father, with tender and saddened hearts 
we appear before Thee, acknowledging our dependence 
upon the mystery of Thy providence and confessing our 
unbounded faith in Thy wisdom and in Thy holiness. 
Be near to those, we pray Thee, to whom our recent loss 
is most near, and keep us and all Thy children in Thine 
unbounded love, now and forever more. Amen. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by W. J. 
Browning, its Chief Clerk, communicated to the Senate 
the intelligence of the death of Hon. Joel Cook, late a 
Representative from the State of Pennsylvania, and trans- 
mitted resolutions of the House thereon. 

The message also announced that the Speaker of the 
House had appointed Mr. Bingham, Mr. Dalzell, Mr. 
McCreary, Mr. Moon, Mr. Butler, Mr. Moore, Mr. Bates, 
Mr. Lafean, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Langham, and Mr. Wanger 
of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Goulden of New York members 
of the committee on the part of the House to attend the 
funeral of the deceased. 

The Vice President. The Chair lays before the Senate 
resolutions from the House of Representatives which will 
be read. 

The Secretai"y read the resolutions, as follows: 

In the House of Representatives, 

December 15, 1910. 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives has heard with 
profound sorrow of the death of the Hon. Joel Cook, late a Rep- 
resentative from the State of Pennsylvania. 



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Resolved, That a committee of 12 Members of the House, with 
sucli Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and send a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the Representative whose death has been announced, the House 
do now adjourn. 

The Speaker appointed Mr. Bingham, Mr. Dalzell, Mr. McCreary, 
Mr. Moon, Mr. Butler, Mr. Moore. Mr. Bates, Mr. Lafean, Mr. 
Palmer, Mr. Langham, and Mr. Wanger of Pennsylvania, and Mr. 
Goulden of New York, members of the committee on the part of 
the House. 

Mr. Penrose. Mr. President, I offer the following reso- 
lutions and ask for their present consideration. 

The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 308) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
follows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the 
announcement of the death of Hon. Joel Cook, late a Representa- 
tive from the State of Pennsylvania. 

Resolved, That a committee of six Senators be appointed by the 
Vice President, to join a committee appointed on the part of the 
House of Representatives, to take order for superintending the 
funeral of Mr. Cook, at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
deceased. 

The Vice President appointed as the committee under 
the second resolution Mr. Penrose, Mr. Oliver. Mr. Carter, 
Mr. Heyburn, Mr. Overman, and Mr. Johnston. 

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Mr. Oliver. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect 
to the niemorj' of the deceased, I move that the Senate 
do now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to, and (at 3 
o'clock and 35 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
to-morrow, Friday, December 16, 1910, at 12 o'clock 
meridian. 






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